Karl Grossman on the Fukushima Cover-Up & Disaster Capitalistas Line Up for a drink of Bull Run

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Tue, 05/17/2011 - 12:00am
Interviews with Karl Grossman on the Fukushima cover-up & Floy Jones on Bull Run

(No links or pix today.  sSrry about that.  The KBOO website is its own worst enemy...)

 

Can the Bull Outrun the Disaster Capitalistas?  Find out tomorrow at City Council Chambers 10:15

Wednesday, May 18 – that’s tomorrow -  The Portland  City Council has scheduled a  hearing  at 10:15 am whether to waste $500 million to treat our Bull Run drinking water, recently confirmed as pure and free from harmful bacteria. Location is at: Council Chambers, Portland City Hall (between Jefferson and Madison on SW 4th Ave)  

And Obama's Environmental Record:  Worse than Bush?

Could Be...

At least with George W. Bush we knew going in that it was going to be bad.  That's what makes Barack Obama such a dismal disappointment when it come sto environment protection.  Clearly America's natural capital is not a priority for this Chicago precinct community organizer.  The Obama administration's proposed new rules for protecting clean water and wildlife on the United States' nearly 200 million acres of national forests goes against the president's pledge to let science be the guide.  That's the word from conservation groups and two former Clinton administration officials.

Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group  said the administration made a "clear commitment" to make conservation policy based on sound science when it took office.

The proposed rules represent another shift to the right on environmental issues for the Obama administration, which recently stood aside as Congress lifted Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Rocky Mountains and took steps to ramp up domestic oil production by extending drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska.

On national forest policy, the Obama administration came into office supporting protection of undeveloped areas known as roadless areas and payments to rural counties hurt by the loss of logging revenues.

Earlier this year Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he wanted to break through the logjam of political conflict over forest management by using science to do what is best for the forests.

More than 400 scientists and a bipartisan group of congressmen wrote letters urging Vilsack to also include more specific protections for clean water and wildlife habitat in the rules.

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